A CALL FOR INTERGALACTIC SOLIDARITY ACTIONS EVERYWHERE TO END THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ZAD OF NOTRE DAME DES LANDES
We are writing with the smell of tear gas rising from our fingers.
The springtime symphony of birdsong is punctuated by the explosive echo
of concussion grenades. Our eyes are watering, less from the gas than
the sadness; because our friends’ homes, barns and organic farms are
being destroyed. Bulldozers, supported by 2500 riot police, armored
vehicles, helicopters and drones, are rampaging through these forests,
pastures and wetlands to crush the future we are building here on the to
the zad (The zone à defendre).
We are calling on you to take solidarity actions everywhere, it could
be holding demos at your local french embassy or consulate, or taking
actions against any suitable symbol (corporate or otherwise) of France !
And if you are not too far away, bring your disobedient bodies to join
us on the zone. If the French government evicts the zad, it will be like
evicting hope.
For fifty years, this unique chequerboard landscape was the site of a
relentless struggle against yet another climate wrecking infrastructure
– a new airport for the nearby city of Nantes. Farmers and villagers,
activists and naturalists, squatters and trade unionists wove an
unbreakable ecology of struggle together and three months ago on the
17th of January, the French government announced that the airport
project would be abandoned. But this incredible victory, won through a
diversity of creative tactics from petitions to direct action, legal
challenges to sabotage, had a dark shadow. In the same breath that
declared the abandonment, came the announcement that the people
occupying these 4000 acres of liberated territory, the 300 of us living
and farming in 80 different collectives, would be evicted because we
dared not just to be against the airport, but its WORLD as well.
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